Hydrocarbon-burner.



PATENTED JULY 21, 1903. H. H. ASHLOGK. HYDROCARBON BURNER.

APPLIOATIONTILED DEO. 23. 1902.

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' UNITED STATES- Patentea Juiy 21, 190e.

PATENT OFFICE.

H-Y'DROCARBON-BU RN ER.

SPECIFICATlONAiorming part of Letters Patent No. 734,152, dated J' uly 21, 1903. vApplicationtiled December 23, 1902. Serial No. 136,389. (No model.)1

. tion.

This invention relates to hydrocarbon-bu rners; and it has forits object to provide a device oi' this class which may be quickly and conveniently applied to be used in connection with either cooking or heating stoves of ordinary construction.

My present invention has. for its object to produce a burner of this class which shall be simple in construction, effective in operation, and in which air supplied through openings in the top plate or cap shall be used for the purpose of supplying the necessary draft to support the combustion of the liquid fuel supplied to the base or pan of the burner.

With these and other ends in view my invention consists in the improved construction, arrangement-,and combination of parts which will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

'In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a perspective view of a hydrocarbon-burner constructed inaccordance with the principles of myinvention and illustrating the preferred form of the same. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view showing the preferred form of my improved hydrocarbon-burner in position for operation in connection with an ordinary cook-stove. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional'detail view taken at right angles to the device, as shown in Fig. 2.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are indicated by similar characters of reference.

My improved hydrocarbon-burner partakes of the nature of a pan, basin, or receptacle, such as l, which may be of any desired size and shape and which is supported by the lower end of a tubular supporting device 2,

the'walls of which are provided with a plurality of slots, such as 3 3, which may be of any desired width and which constitute the slits through which in practice the Iiames are projected. The supporting-tube or burnertube 2 is provided at its upper edge with an outwardly-extending annular flange 4E,where tuel may be regulated, extends through an opening l0 in the top plate or cover 6, where the said feed-pipe may be secured, if desired,

in anyssuitable manner, so as to be permanently supported. Preferably, however, the said feed-pipe is independently supported by means ofsuitably-disposed bracketsll, which render it independent ot' the top plate of the burner.

' The base-pan l is extended laterally from the lower end or edge of the supporting-tube, as clearly vshown in Figs. l and 2 of the drawings, where the burner is thus illustrated as being practically L-shaped.

In practice the burner-pan or fuel-pan lis provided with a layer of absorbent material, which may be readily saturated by the oil which passes through the feed-pipe to the said pan. In practice I have found that the very best and most efficacious absorbent inaterial that may be used for this purpose is ordinary coalashes, a quantity of which placed in the bottom of the fuel-pan will absorb the liquid hydrocarbon, which may then be readily ignited. The combustion being supported by the air entering through the top or cap plate, assisted by the usual draft in the stove, will cause the flames emitted through the openings 3 and in the case ofthe construction shown in Figs. l and 2 through the top of that portion of the pan which projects laterally from the lower end of the burner-tube to be projected in the direction of the tlues of the stove, which will carry oft any soot, smoke, or other visible products of combustion.

The incombustible residue, which in a great many crude-oil burners as now ordinarily constructed has been the source of considerable annoyance, would become incorporated with the ashes in the bottom of the fuel-pan, which may from Atime to time be readily cleaned out and disposed of.

I desire it to be understood that while I have in the foregoing described a simple and preferred construction of my invention I do l not limit myself with regard to the structural details of the same, but reserve the right to any changes, alterations, and modifications which may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention or sacrificing the utility of the same.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- A hydrocarbon-burner consisting of a vertically-slotted cylinder provided at its lower end with a concave closure extended later- Witnesses:

J. Ross CALHOUN, J. H. J ooHUM, Jr. 

